Have you ever seen a beautifully composed photo, painting, or website and wondered if there is any science behind it? Well, there actually is. Great artists, designers, and architects have been using what is called the Golden Ratio since 400 BC. Most use it intuitively to divide space and create compositions in a pleasing way, [...]
In this video I show how to use the bone tool on a shape allowing you to manipulate graphics in a more organic fashion while still mantaining the objects structure. Download source files here.
I this tutorial you’ll learn how to access the microphone and use that data to affect graphics. Then, you’ll see how easy it is to set up Flash to publish an AIR app for Android devices. The final result is a game playing on a Nexus One. Download Source Files
In this video you will see how easy it is to check to see if the device has Accelerometer capabilities and then manipulate an object based on the accelerometer data. Download Source Files
In this tutorial I show you how to reposition and resize graphics to always fit the size of the screen it is playing on. So whether the content is playing in a browser on a laptop or on a mobile phone (with the Flash Player), the content will always fit appropriately. I also show how [...]
Last week I participated in the eSeminar series “Going Multiscreen with the Flash Platform”and some of the presentations have been recorded and assets uploaded. All are worth watching, (especially Thibault’s on optimizing web content). Best Practices in Optimizing Web Content Thibault Imbert: @thibault_imbert, http://www.bytearray.org Slides Recording: Coming soon The Quickest Way to Build Cross-Platform Apps [...]
Jump 5:00 in to see how people are motivated. (hint: It’s not money)
The Adobe AIR 2 SDK is now publicly available for download (Windows, Mac and Linux).
Props to Flash Evangelist Michael Chaize, Thibault Imbert and others on the Flash Player team for help with the content.
I’ve recently been working on encoding video for mobile devices and these are the best settings for the current device set that will support Flash: Preferred Alternate Video codec H.264 Constrained Baseline Profile, up to 30 fps On2 VP6 Simple Profile or Sorensen Spark, up to 30 fps Audio codec AAC-LC, 44.1 kHz, stereo MP3, [...]
